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OUR SOLDIERS AND MARINES ARE NOT SAFE IN THEIR OWN POSTS
“At no time in our military history have soldiers or Marines been required to serve on the front line in any war for a period of 6-7 months, let alone a year, without a significant break in order to recover from the physical, psychological...
Tags: army, fragging, wars, afghanistan, iraq, Pat Tillman, command failure, accountability
NATO air strike kills Afghan force members
This is the sort of thing that turns Afghans against the NATO and US forces. Too often air support is called in and often civilians are among the casualties. This time it seems the air strike was on the wrong location entirely. McChrystal is supposed...
Moving out of Afghanistan: Sort, scrap and sell
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 22 hours ago
Credibility
It'll be part of this country's planned exit of combat soldiers from Afghanistan, an undertaking that begins in July, 2011, and will amount to Canada's biggest military withdrawal since the post-Cold War pullout from Germany. Canada's top soldier, Chief...
Tags: Afghanistan
Warning on public Afghan support
London :: United Kingdom | about 22 hours ago
Credibility Public backing is "crucial" to military success in Afghanistan, a top British commander has warned as a poll suggests support for the mission is ebbing away. The survey for the BBC's Politics Show found 64% of Britons believe the war is "unwinnable",...
Tags: Afghanistan, Gordon Brown, lord guthrie, Guthrie, defence chiefs, prime minister
'West fears Iran's energy independence'
Tehrān :: Iran | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:51:12 GMT Font size : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Western powers are concerned about Tehran's steady progress in becoming energy independent rather than its alleged potential to build a nuclear bomb. "The [Western]...
Tags: Iran, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, North Korea, Berlin Wall, Bank Mellat, Europe, Afghanistan, Russian, Asia
Obama adviser urges caution on extra Afghan troops
Berlin :: Germany | about 24 hours ago
Credibility Afghanistan, that an increase of about 40,000 troops was needed. "Generals always ask for more troops," Jones said. "I believe we will not solve the problem with troops alone...But there is no maximum number, however. "You can keep on putting troops...
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama
NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers in Badghis
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen. Afghan authorities were investigating whether an alliance airstrike during an operation Friday...
Tags: U.S, afghans soldiers, Afghanistan, NATO Airstrike Killed, afghans security, NATO Air Strike Kills, Badghis, security forces, friendly fire, badghis province
Afghanistan rejects criticism
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility Afghanistan on Saturday rejected criticism of President Hamid Karzai by foreign leaders and the senior UN official in the country, accusing them of disrespecting the country's sovereignty. Kai Eide, the UN's special representative to Afghanistan, was...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Mr Karzai, United Nations, Barack Obama, president hamid, Kai Eide, Afghan Foreign Ministry, U.N.
Afghanistan: Time to leave
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility Britain should start withdrawing, not reinforcing, its troops in Afghanistan. Sending extra troops is unnecessary and will prove counter-effective. The additional number of British troops is small, but the US is poised to send tens of thousands more soldiers...
Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan
Ban says UN not detered by staff killings
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility After a closed-door meeting with the UN Security Council, Ban, addressing a press conference on Friday, said he briefed the council about his recent trip to Afghanistan. He said that a coordinated international effort should be undertaken once again to...
Tags: Afghanistan
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